PARIS – France’s main Jewish organization warned on Friday that Church efforts to make wartime Pope Pius XII a saint would deal “a severe blow” to relations between Catholics and Jews. The warning from the umbrella organization of French Jewish groups, or CRIF, comes as the Vatican is mounting an aggressive campaign to refute decades-old…

HERSHEY, Pa. — A group of twentysomethings at the Evangelical Free Church of Hershey spoke admiringly about Barack Obama’s eloquence, his impulse to heal divides and his historic campaign as a black man nominated for the presidency. But only one of the four in this key battleground state was even leaning toward voting for the…

A Seattle Episcopal priest who claims to be both Christian and Muslim has been restricted from public ministry and will be defrocked unless she “reclaims” Christianity by next April, the Episcopal Church announced. The Rev. Ann Holmes Redding has “abandoned” the Episcopal Church by formally joining a faith “not in communion” with the national church,…

When Carl Anderson publicly rebuked Sen. Joe Biden last month for opposing the Catholic Church’s stance on abortion, Anderson said he was speaking “on behalf of the 1.28 million” Knights of Columbus in the U.S. Everyone, that is, except for Knights like Rick Gebhard of Manistee, Mich. Gebhard, a 36-year-old public school teacher, says he…

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